On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Toon van der Pas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:40:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > On 10 Aug 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > > In article >E13MevS-0001Si-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
> > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > >2.2.17pre16
> > > >o Fix long standing vm hang bug (Marcelo Tosatti)
> > >
> > > Just curious, is this supposed to fix the same bug as the (quite
> > > different) patch from Marcelo (Subject: Re: oops 2.2.17pre15) in
> > > <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008081914260.900-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> ?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The patch included in 2.2.17pre16 fixes another problem.
>
> So what's the story about your three-line lock-patch for 2.2.17-pre15?
> Does it really solve the problem?
It does not seem to fix the __find_page problem, (octave reported an oops
with my patch applied)
> You asked Andrea for comment, but I didn't see any reaction from him.
Neither I. :)
> Should we apply the patch on top of 2.2.17-pre16?
Yes.
Even if it does not fix the __find_page() thing, it fixes a bug and should
be applied.
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